My husband showed it to our 8yr old son not realizing that yesterday he used santa ink stamps all over his arms. I showed him his arms and he immediately regretted sharing the pic. I am not confident we won't find our son the same way one of these days. Hide all your markers now!

When I was a young lad, I was quite the fan of Star Wars. I was at a party, where there was a face painter. Other children were getting painted as lions, Spiderman, etc. I said nay. I demanded to have my face painted as Darth Vader. The poor artist, unsure of what to do, painted my face entirely black. I’m not sure how people reacted, but it was understandably a crisis to my parents.

And that’s the story of how I wore blackface when I was around two or three years old.

OMG - I didn't know his arms got sheared off. I've seen the movie at least 50 times, even watched it on TNT a couple days ago. Looks like the 51st showing will have to be tonight! Thanks for giving me an excuse.

Thank you for reminding me. In fifth grade, for Halloween I dressed up as Michael Jackson, specifically him in thriller. Well... MJ was black at the time. And I was a fifth grade white kid with zero clue about race relations in America. That was a nice welcoming at school in the morning.

The machete order (IV, V, I, II, III, VI) ruins the Luke/Leia twist and matter-of-factly introduces Force lightning. By the end of VI, we wont feel all that awed because we've seen, IMO, far more impressive displays of lightning. Release order is still the way to go.